Måned: november 2013

Bumblefoot putting his foot down with Axl â€Iâ€™m saying it here first â€” Iâ€™m choosing my own life; I have to. If Iâ€™m gonna be painted into a corner where I have to choose between being in GUNS Nâ€™ ROSES and the entire rest of my life, and if theyâ€™re not willing to help me keep the two functioning well together, then Iâ€™m out.â€

One of the most talked about collections of the 1990s is back again as a new Signed Limited Edition from Cemetery Dance Publications featuring eleven bonus short stories not appearing in any other edition! This special edition features the original contents of the paperback edition, including the introduction by W. Axl Rose, along with a new introduction/afterword from Del James about the eleven bonus stories. This is a special edition that no horror collection would be complete without!

Who wants to buy Axl Roseâ€˜s marriage certificate? How about the actual wedding video of the singerâ€™s marriage to former actress and model Erin Everly? What about a domestic abuse report? Or break-up letters penned by Rose after the marriage didnâ€™t work out? All of this and more can be yours! Seriously.

Celebrity memorabilia is a pretty lucrative industry, and thereâ€™s honestly no telling what weird stuff fans will purchase and for what price. For anyone obsessed with Guns Nâ€™ Roses vocalist Axl Rose, a mass of unique items from his marriage to Erin Everly has become available at Julienâ€™s Auctions.

The items of for grabs are pieces from â€œthe collection of Erin Everlyâ€ and you wonâ€™t believe how deeply personal some of them are. More â€œnormalâ€ items such as Axl Roseâ€™s leather pants, the shirt he wore in the â€˜Welcome to the Jungleâ€™ video and old backstage passes are being offered for a price, but these are just tips of the iceberg.

Numerous love letters written by Axl Roses for Everly can be purchased for a few hundred bucks, as can clusters of hand-written poems and lyrics from Rose. The pieces start to get weirder, however, as a copy of Rose and Everlyâ€™s 1990 wedding video is priced at $2,000 â€“ $3,000. Additionally, the coupleâ€™s marriage certificate is also being auctioned off for the same estimated price.

Strangest of all has got to be a copy of a domestic abuse report filed by the Los Angeles Police Department in 1988. The paper details an alleged incident in which the victim was kicked and beaten with fists. This particular package comes with a bill for the sale Everlyâ€™s wedding ring, an â€œI Love You Erinâ€ note written by Rose, a $5,027 receipt from Franklin Fuller Properties and another receipt from Crown T.V. for the repair of a television that Everly claims Rose broke.

GlideMagazine.com: How does it make you feel when people constantly criticize GUNS and your bandmates so unfairly?

Â I get it. I understand people want what they remember the band as being. A lot of times, people have a hard time accepting. Fans of FLEETWOOD MAC before they got Stevie Nicks, if they were fans of Peter Green, they didn’t get it. Most of those people, it took them a long time to accept FLEETWOOD MAC as a different band because it wasn’t Peter Green. The same deal with the SANTANA band and all the changes that band went through. For people to accept VAN HALEN with Sammy Hagar singing, even though that was their most successful time and they sold more records with Sammy Hagar, a lot of people that liked VAN HALEN from the beginning didn’t want to hear anything but David Lee Roth on it. Same thing with GENESIS. I have a hard time listening to GENESIS with Phil Collins singing after Peter Gabriel. It just goes on and on, the list is quite long. And I think it’s harder when you change singers, because it’s such a huge voice of the music and really that’s like the most personal aspect and connection to a band is generally through the singer. And when you change that, it changes the character of the band. And in the same respect, changing anybody else makes it different as well. And it’s a different band. A lot of people accept it and a lot of people don’t. And that’s OK.

If he had his way, Thalâ€™s vision for the bandâ€™s next album will be to factor the pureness of rock â€™nâ€™ roll, where listeners can point out what each member of the band is playing and the music will be injected with each memberâ€™s distinctive personality. â€œIt (the album) would be very imperfect, very real, natural and not edited to give it a live, raw, organic sound. I think thatâ€™s what people want from GNâ€™R. And when they think about GNâ€™R, they think about rock â€™nâ€™ roll, and thatâ€™s what I like to be … the best rock â€™nâ€™ roll band we can be,â€ he enthused.